By 1990, an estimated 50 % of islanders had some degree of proficiency in Corsican, and a small minority, perhaps 10 %, used Corsican as a first language.

The first major blackout, which left the islanders powerless and entirely dependent on alternative methods of electricity generation ( mainly diesel generators ), was from 21 May to 19 June 2008.

In the later 1890s and into first decade of the 20th century, structural changes occurred in the operation of the Pacific trading companies, with the trading companies moving from a practice of having traders resident on each island to trade with the islanders to a business operation where the supercargo ( the cargo manager of a trading ship ) would deal directly with the islanders when a ship would visit an island.

Rivers's first task was to examine first hand the colour vision of the islanders and compare it to that of Europeans.

He found the islanders suffering from sickness under the stifling and baneful effects of the Dog-Star Sirius at its first appearance before the sun's rising, in early July.

The first reliable account of Guanche language was provided by the Genoese explorer Nicoloso da Recco in 1341, with a translation of numbers used by the islanders.

The first time they saw a leaflet which claimed that the war was over was in October 1945 ; another cell had killed a cow and found a leaflet left behind by islanders which read: " The war ended on August 15.

The 167 Bikini islanders first learned their fate four days later, on Sunday, February 10, when Navy Commodore Ben H. Wyatt, United States military governor of the Marshall Islands, arrived by seaplane from Kwajalein.

But on 28 April it too had broken into open revolt and, most significantly, the islanders ' first act was to set fire to Charles ' fleet lying in the harbor.

At first Pedro feigned to be indifferent to the request of the Sicilians and to the plight of the islanders, but after several days to allow a proper showing of deference made for the pope's consumption, Pedro took advantage of the revolt.

The Sakishima Islands were first documented in the Shoku Nihongi ( 797 ), which says that in 714 paid tribute to Dazaifu with 52 islanders from,, and other islands.

The names the islanders used for self-reference are Mungiki ( Bellona )( lastly sighted Island ) and Mugava ( the first sighted Island ) ( Rennell ).

The first Muslims who settled in the Netherlands were these islanders who fled from its bloody war of Independence.

According to Edward Ullendorff, the Dahlak islanders were amongst the first in East Africa to convert to Islam, and a number of tombstones in Kufic writing attest to this early connection.

English is the first language of all native islanders regardless of race and Spanish is spoken second, whereas mainland Honduras is primarily Spanish speaking.

Cup ' ig is a first language for many older islanders, and is enjoying a dedicated revival among younger islanders as well, although nearly all Nuniwarmiut ( Nunivak people ) speak English.

The first documented record of the island of Ruhnu, and of its Swedish population, is a 1341 letter sent by the Bishop of Courland which confirmed the islanders ' right to reside and manage their property in accordance with Swedish law.

In November 1943, a first group of about 75 islanders relocated to Sweden.

Many of them were members of the Indian Independence League, whose leader in Port Blair, Dr. Diwan Singh, had already been tortured to death in the Cellular Jail after doing his best to protect the islanders from Japanese atrocities during the first two years of the occupation.

During the first period, the islanders deposited bundles of human bones and iron implements ( axes, bracelets, spears, spoons, iron currency ) in shallow pits dug in the sand.

English is the first language of all native islanders regardless of race and Spanish is spoken second, whereas mainland Honduras is primarily Spanish speaking.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

For men who had left cattle alone after getting their first notices had received no second.

When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

At the first shot Russ had hurled his mount to the left toward the side of the winding draw.

I certainly hope this will be the impression left in the minds of readers, rather than the comment by Cleveland Amory in his first of the month column.

Alex entered first and was followed by the doctor who, for all his care, manifested a perceptible bulge on his left side where the hen was cradled.

The right will land first, followed by the left.

Here he put a small man, whose missing hands might have left his function doubtful, until comparison with the first sketches showed that when the artist came back to the beginning, this was to be the closing figure of the party of `` forty-niners '', and was to hold a basket.

I shall first indicate a couple of weaknesses in Fromm's analysis, then argue that, granted these weaknesses, he still has much left that is valuable, and, finally, raise the general question of a philosophical versus a sociological approach to the question of alienation.

The second productive period, the decade from 1910 to 1920, can be related to three events: the completion of The Dynasts in 1909, which left Hardy free of pressure for the first time in forty years ; ;

In the first picture ( 9a ) the knife is just beginning to advance into the inclined surface which was left from the previous chip formation.

After the first two were blacked out, the third light was abandoned by a terrified Italian crew, who left their light to shine for nine minutes like an unerring homing beacon until British MP's shot it out.

Palfrey told his wife of his intentions for the first time, and left for New Orleans apprehensively invoking a special blessing of Providence that he might be allowed to see his family again.

There was still a little, not much, left in the first bottle and we passed it around once and killed it, and Charlie opened his.

Jim Landis' 380-foot home run over left in the first inning gave the Sox a 1-0 lead, but Harmon Killebrew came back in the bottom of the first with his second homer in two days with the walking Bob Allison aboard.

Al Smith's 340-blast over left in the fourth -- his fourth homer of the campaign -- tied the score and Carreon's first major league home run in the fifth put the Sox back in front.

As he left the bandstand to return to his office, the slender, sun-tanned Chief Executive paused along the way to shake hands with the members of the audience in wheel chairs forming the first row under the field tent set up for the guests.

But it was fun those first days, kidding about the trail of garments he left littered across the rug.

In the left part there were four beads, which in the first row have unitary values ( 1, 2, 3, and 4 ), and in the right side there are three beads with values of 5, 10, and 15 respectively.

At first, people indulge in fantasies, imagining the missing person's return, but then they start to feel like prisoners, drifting through life with nothing left but the past, since they do not know how long into the future their ordeal may last.

left In keeping with his democratic ideals, Mackenzie refused the offer of a knighthood three times, and was thus the only one of Canada's first eight Prime Ministers not to be knighted.

As the first major intra-Christian conflict after Christianity's legalization, the struggle between Nicenes and Arians left a deep impression on the institutional memory of Nicene churches.

For AES, the first row is left unchanged.

The Baptist movement originated with Thomas Helwys, who left his mentor John Smyth ( who had moved into shared belief and other distinctives of the Dutch Waterlander Mennonites of Amsterdam ) and returned to London to start the first English Baptist Church in 1611.